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DarkAgeOutlaw t1_iudyrcc wrote

Pennsylvania’s population in 1850 was over 2 million. California was like 90 thousand. California wouldn’t reach 2 million people until 1900, with the majority of those moving in from the east, not born there. By that point Pennsylvania’s population was over 6 million. They just had a huge head start

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